Victoria Siegel was in love. She was a free spirit who preferred to go barefoot and rescued "the ugliest dogs," as her mother puts it, from the pound. She struggled in class but graduated high school, and she had big dreams: opening a sushi restaurant, designing T-shirts, pursuing her passions for poetry, music and art. Victoria was also addicted to prescription drugs, and on June 6, she died of an overdose at the age of 18.

Dr. Walter J. Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who admitted to killing Cecil the lion during a hunting trip to Zimbabwe, has written a long letter to his patients apologizing for the "inconvenience" that the incident has caused.